High Food Price Impact Assessment and Analysis - WFP Remote ...

Executive Summary
Since the price crisis, WFP has been undertaking extensive consultations with partners to set up mitigation responses
based on analyses findings. WFP has been joining with a range of partners, including among others, Governments,
FEWS NET, Oxfam, SCF-UK, FAO, the World Bank, IFAD to conduct field missions or more in-depth local
analysis of the impact of price rises on local populations.
The stock-taking workshop on the impacts of high prices, the fifth of a series of consultative meetings undertaken by
WFP since the beginning of 2008, focused on ways to improve price impact analysis for programming decisions. It
was funded by a DFID institutional strenghening grant. The meeting was attended by 27 staff from partners
(Governments, UN Agencies and NGOs) and 27 from WFP (Headquarters and Field Offices). The specific objectives
of the workshop were to:
• Share analyses findings and key lessons learned
• Identify minimum set of information to meet information needs under different settings (rapid versus in-depth
analyses)
• Strengthen the interface between assessment findings and programming responses.
A series of presentations made on the first two days, focussed on the use of existing monitoring systems, secondary
information sets and primary data collection and analysis to inform on the impacts of the food price crisis on
households’ food security. Discussions of issues that emerged from these presentations were prioritized during plenary
sessions and recommendations on how to address these issues are summarized in sections 4, 5 and 6. A number of
urgent and important recommendations that need to be followed-up were identified (section 5). Each agency or
organisation briefly presented its ongoing or planned activities and suggested where they could undertake to
implement or address some of these recommendations (section 6).
In conclusion, it was suggested that organisations look for areas where they can work in bilateral / multilateral
partnerships to implement recommendations. In order to carry the work forward, a small committee composed of
SCUK, OXFAM, OCHA, ANLP, FAO and WFP was set up to start discussions to identify an approach by which
lessons learnt can be shared.
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